I vs Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [Sept. 



The Chairman read a communication from Mr. Temple, with an 

 enclosure from Col. T. Spence, regarding the collection of aboriginal 

 specimens of the human race, at the approaching Jubbulpore Ex- 

 hibition. He said, — 



" I am glad to be able to inform the Society that our efforts for the 

 establishment of a system of Ethnological exhibitions are likely 

 soon to bear practical fruit. In these things, the first step is the 

 most difficult ; and if we once make a commencement, the rest will 

 follow. Knowing that Mr. Temple, Chief Commissioner of the 

 Central Provinces, proposes to hold an Exhibition at Jubbulpore next 

 Christmas week, and believing Jubbulpore to be the centre of a country 

 abounding in the most interesting aboriginal races, I suggested to 

 him the advantage of adding a human department to his exhibition. 

 Mr. Temple is a man always ready to take the lead in any movement 

 in advance : he acts, while others only think. The letters which I 

 will now read will show that he has accepted our suggestion. 



" They run as follows : — 



" The Residency , Nac/pore, 



bth July, 1866. 



M My dear Campbell, — In reference to your Ethnological sugges- 

 tion : I enclose an extract copy of a note from Spence. 



" I have told him to get the Exhibition Committee to see whether a 

 little lucre may not tempt these wild creatures to come into the 

 station and be clothed, and shewn off for the edification of their more 

 civilized fellow-humans. 



(Extract from Col. Spence 's letter.) 



11 ' With reference to the proposal for getting up an Ethnological 

 Exhibition as an addendum to the Exhibition at Jubbulpore, which 

 forms the subject of your letter of the 20th instant, there is no doubt 

 that there are many interesting races in various parts of this division : 

 but I fear it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to get speci- 

 mens of these races collected at Jubbulpore, for they are as wild as 

 the jungles and hills which they inhabit ; and are so suspicious, that 

 they would be sure to think we must have some mysterious object 

 in view. If we could manage to bring some of them in, we should 

 be obliged to provide clothing for most of them : at least I can say 

 that when I was in the Mundlah District in January and February 



